Business Operations Jobs in London, UK

Looking for a business operations job in London? Choose from 91 open roles at 42 employers. Explore real salary data and skills breakdown across remote, hybrid and on-site roles.

91 Open roles
42 Companies hiring
113K Average salary

What do Finance, legal and operations in London work on?

The titles on this page range from financial accounting and payroll through to senior legal counsel and director-level roles, reflecting the breadth of business operations at technology companies. Day-to-day responsibilities vary considerably by level. Accounting-oriented roles such as the Financial Controller at WPP centre on month-end close cycles, balance sheet reconciliation, variance analysis, and managing a finance team, with qualified accountant credentials expected. Finance analyst roles, like the Sr. Financial Analyst at Amazon Music, focus on financial modelling, forecasting, deal evaluation, and KPI analysis tied to a specific business unit.

Legal postings span employment law, credit regulation, and commercial contracts, with the Sr. Director, Legal at PayPal illustrating a multijurisdictional team leadership role requiring regulatory expertise across EU and UK credit products. At the more unusual end, the DeepMind Research Scientist role at Google sits within AI safety governance, combining risk modelling, evaluation, and policy writing. Compliance and GRC titles add a further strand, covering governance frameworks, third-party risk, and internal audit work.

Skills and experience employers ask for

Because this is a broad operations group rather than an engineering category, technical skills appear in only a minority of postings. References to agents appear most frequently, reflecting AI-adjacent employer contexts, while SQL and Python appear in a small number of descriptions, likely tied to analyst and data-facing roles. A Master's degree is mentioned in a handful of postings, and a PhD in two. Most postings make no mention of any of these skills at all, so their presence signals niche requirements rather than a general pattern.

Agents 20%
SQL 11%
Python 9%
LLMs 5%
Evaluation 5%
Go 3%
APIs 3%
Master's degree 3%
AWS 2%
GPUs 2%
A/B testing 2%
RAG 1%
Prompt engineering 1%
GCP 1%

Business Operations roles that state a salary

The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels โ€” not an average and not a market rate.

London office, hybrid or remote?

Most postings on this page specify on-site working, with hybrid arrangements accounting for roughly a quarter of the total. Only one posting is listed as fully remote. No postings have an unknown work mode, so the picture here is relatively clear compared with many job samples. That said, hybrid terms โ€” days in office, flexibility expectations โ€” are not detailed in the fact pack, so candidates should check individual postings for those specifics. The concentration of on-site roles suggests employers in this group currently expect regular physical presence.

Make your application specific to the work

  1. Check the work-mode detail Most roles state on-site or hybrid but do not specify the exact in-office expectation, so read each posting carefully before applying to avoid surprises at the offer stage.
  2. Confirm professional qualifications early Finance roles on this page mention specific accountancy qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, or CIMA, and legal roles reference law degrees and years of post-qualification experience; confirm you meet these before investing time in an application.
  3. Note which roles state pay Only a small number of postings on this page advertise a salary range, and those are concentrated with particular employers; for the majority, compensation is not stated and would need to be raised during the process.
  4. Tailor for seniority level The seniority spread here is wide, from intern through to director and executive level, so frame your application materials to match the specific level of the role rather than sending a generic document.

Questions about Business Operations jobs in London

Only a handful of postings on this page advertise pay. The stated ranges run from ยฃ60,000โ€“ยฃ65,000 for a Financial Accountant at Volta up to ยฃ154,000โ€“ยฃ212,000 for a Lead Counsel, UK & Europe at Ramp. These are individual advertised figures from specific employers, not a guide to the broader market.

One posting on this page is listed as fully remote. The large majority require either full on-site attendance or a hybrid arrangement. Specific hybrid terms are not detailed in the postings shown here.

Most postings on this page do not mention technical skills in their descriptions. SQL, Python, and similar tools appear in only a small number, suggesting they are relevant to certain analyst or data-adjacent positions rather than being a general requirement across the group.

Finance roles reference accountancy qualifications including ACA, ACCA, and CIMA. Legal roles expect a law degree and, in senior cases, substantial post-qualification experience. A Master's degree is mentioned in a small number of postings and a PhD in two, the latter in research or AI-governance-oriented roles.

Harvey has the highest count in these postings, followed by WPP and Volta. Other employers with multiple listings include Via, Waymo, Monzo, Anthropic, and Stripe. The remaining employers each have fewer postings on this page.

Jobs checked 1 hour ago. ยท Guide reviewed 14 September 2026.